Category: Broadband

Opinion on the UK's broadband future is polarising between the full fat fibre brigade and those favouring a lighter semi-skimmed look. BT Group Strategy Director Sean Williams has clearly placed the large telco in the semi-skimmed camp.

Cumbria has sent both BT and Fujitsu back to the drawing board, in a bid to ensure that at least one of the tenders for the £40m contract will meet the counties broadband ambitions.

The BDUK projects are often promoted as improving the broadband situation in rural areas, but the presence of not-spots in urban areas like Milton Keynes highlights that the broadband issues are not solely rural.

A free install offer has been made for users in the Duddon Valley and Branthwaite areas of Cumbria after it was announced that their broadband service, being provided by Cable and Wireless was to be disconnected.

We are helping ICM Research put together a panel of broadband users for some performance testing. Those accepted on the panel will receive a £25 payment and may be given the opportunity to take part in further surveys later. At the moment, ICM are still looking to recruit panellists on the following ISPs (see link for full package requirements: BT Infinity, Sky Fibre, Virgin Media 30-100 meg, TalkTalk 40/80 meg, O2/BE 20/24 meg, Orange 20/24 meg. For more details, see http://surveys.thinkbroadband.com/s3/icm-panel

Scotland will receive extra funding to help deploy broadband in the region following a re-evaluation by BDUK

Wednesday marks World IPv6 Launch Day, when many major websites such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft turn on IPv6 on their homepages. On 6th June 2011, we saw a 24-hour trial of IPv6 on the main website addresses of these sites to test for any problems, but this year IPv6 will stay enabled for good

Businesses and residents in the fibre areas that KC are rolling out a 350 Mbps fibre service, and yes that is really three hundred and fifty Mega bits per second.

The pristine and beautiful streets of Kensington and Chelsea are set to remain so, with the borough saying no to the majority of street cabinets in the area.

The Openreach full fibre products that can offer connection speeds of 330 Mbps are set for their full commercial launch on 2nd July.